Tim Lake

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Tim Lake is a television news anchor and reporter for WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he is the co-anchor of NBC 10 News at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m.. He became lead anchor in June of 2003 after Larry Mendte joined KYW-TV. Prior to this he was co-anchor of the 5 P.M. edition of NBC 10 News. He joined WCAU in 1992 as an anchor/reporter where co-anchoring the now defunct noon newscast with Renee Chenault-Fattah. In 2002, he was removed from the 5 P.M. news and was demoted to general assignment reporter. He went to accept an anchor position at KYW-TV, but he was told by station management that he'd be sued for breaching his contract. His contract contained a non-compete clause as well as a clause that he could leave at anytime for either a network job or a job in a large market. He filed a breach of contract suit against WCAU. He eventually got his 5 P.M. anchor position back. In 2003, he went back to co-anchoring newscasts with Chenault.